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Polmont Old Parish Church
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Polmont Parish was disjoined from Falkirk by the Commissioners of Teinds on 22 July 1724. In 1929 with the union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the congregation took the name Polmont North Church, The name Polmont Old was adopted in 1977 when Polmont South changed its name to Brightons Parish Church. Redding and Westquarter was run as a church extension charge from Polmont North. Linked with Shieldhill from 10 September 1961 to1 November 1963. First church building completed 1734, second church building completed 1844.
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Robert L Grant
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Alexander Johnson
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W McPherson
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Stenhouse & Carron Parish Church
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Formed by union of Stenhouse Parish Church and Carron Parish Church. Congregation use the McLaren Memorial Church.
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Falkirk Old & St Modan's Parish Church
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Formed on 2 October 1986 by the union of St Modan's and Falkirk Old Parish Church. Church extension charge in Hallglen
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Grangemouth Kerse Parish Church
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Kerse Church was formed as the result of a division within Grangemouth Parish Church during the 1890s. In 1897 a group from the Parish Church petitioned the Presbytery of Linlithgow to establish a new mission charge and the congregation began meeting in Grangemouth Town Hall in May 1897, calling Rev W A Knowles as minister in September. The church building was dedicated on 24th February 1899. A manse was acquired in 1929. Kerse was disjoined from Polmont parish and erected as a quoad sacra parish by the Court of Teinds on 13 July 1906.
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Bothkennar & Carronshore Parish Church
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Bothkennar & Carronshore Parish Church was formed on 29 Dec 1943 by the union of Carronshore Church and Bothkennar Parish Church.
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Carron Parish Church
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Carron Parish Church was formed in 1878 and formally established by a petition in 1879 to Falkirk Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church by members of Falkirk Erskine UP Church who lived in Carron. The congregation met in Carron schoolroom until a new building was opened in 1881. In 1963 the congregation was united with Stenhouse Parish Church to form Stenhouse & Carron Parish Church. The Carron Church building was erected in 1881 and demolished in 1996.
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Muiravonside Parish Church
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Muiravonside Parish was disjoined from Falkirk by parliament on 10 June 1648. The church was in existence some sixty years earlier. A mission charge at Standburn was transferred to Avonbridge parish in 1935. The congregation was linked with Shieldhill & Blackbraes Parish Church in 2008.
Cairneymount Church was built as an additional church within the parish following a bequest by Mr John Grubb Urquhart of Vellore. The architect was J D Strang and it was opened in September 1904. In 1973 Cairneymount Church was turned into a church hall and in 2003 (?) the building was sold for development. |
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Dunipace Old Parish Church
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The parish of Dunipace was a pre-reformation parish which belonged to the Abbey of Cambuskenneth. It was united with the parish of Larbert by Act of Parliament in 1617, confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1624. A mission chapel was set up from Dunipace Parish Church in Carronshore in the nineteenth century. The congregation took the name Larbert & Dunipace Old Parish Church in 1929 and then became Dunipace Old Parish Church in 1962 after the union with Larbert was dissolved. Dunipace Old was lined with Dunipace north on 20 Mar 1964 and the two congregations united on 8 January 1989 as Dunipace Parish Church.
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Grangemouth Kerse Parish Church Sunday School
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Bonnybridge St Helen's Parish Church
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Formed by the union of Bonnybridge Parish Church and High Bonnybridge St Helen's on 31 July 1991
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Bo'ness Old Parish Church
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By 1643 a church had been erected in Bo’ness, within the quoad omnia parish of Kinneil and in 1649 the parish of Bo'ness was disjoined from the parish of Kinneil by Act of Parliament. In 1669 the two parishes were re-united as a quoad omnia parish with the name of Bo'ness Parish. The congregation took the name Bo'ness Old Parish Church in 1929 following the union of the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland.
The Church of Scotland kirk session for Bo'ness sat within the presbytery of Linlithgow and the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale until 1929, when it became part of the presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk. In 1976 it became part of the presbytery of Falkirk. The old parish church in Corbiehall was erected in 1636-38 and alterations made in 1672, 1776 and 1820. The present church building on Panbrae Rd was built in 1885. |
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Airth Parish Church
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There has been a church in Airth since at least 1128. The church was appropriated to Holyrood Abbey by David I. The post-reformation church was a quoad omnia parish. Airth Parish Church remained in the Church of Scotland in 1843. In 1929 it was re-named Airth North Church to distinguish it from the former United Free Church (Airth South) but reverted to the name Airth Parish Church after Airth South was closed on 1 January 1956.
The Church of Scotland kirk session for Airth sat in the presbytery of Stirling until 1929. It then sat within the presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk and from 1976 in the presbytery of Falkirk. The old Parish Church building near Airth Castle which is now in ruins was used from the late 12th century until 1820 when it was abandoned in favour of the North Church building, built to replace the old parish church by William Stirling of Dunblane. |
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Dunipace Parish Church
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Formed on 8 January 1989 by the union of Dunipace North and Dunipace Old Parish Church
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Stenhouse Parish Church
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McLaren Memorial Church was opened in 1900 as an extension congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish was formally disjoined from Larbert in 1904. It took the name Stenhouse Parish Church in 1929. In 1963 the congregation was united with Carron Parish Church to form Stenhouse & Carron Parish Church. The church was named after the Rev John McLaren, D. D. who was minister of the United Parishes of Larbert and Dunipace from 1847 until his death in 1898. The building was begun in 1897 to celebrate Dr McLaren's 50th anniversary and was completed in 1899 and dedicated in 1900. There are four stained glass windows by Dr Douglas Strachan.
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Denny Old Parish Church
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The quoad omnia parish of Denny was disjoined from Falkirk in 1601 and was erected a parish by Act of Parliament in 1641. A portion of the parish was removed in 1875 to form the quoad sacra parish of Haggs, and another portion in 1878 to form part of the quoad sacra parish of Bonnybridge. After the 1929 union of the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland it was known as Denny Old to distinguish it from other Church of Scotland congregations in Denny.
The Church of Scotland kirk session for Denny sat in the presbytery of Stirling until 1929. It then sat within the presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk and from 1976 in the presbytery of Falkirk. The church building was erected in 1813 |
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Falkirk Old Parish Church Choir?
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Condorrat Parish Church
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